Lucho González banned: official reveals spat with Mourinho | OneFootball

Lucho González received a one-game suspension and an additional eight-day penalty for his involvement in the commotion that occurred after Benfica's second goal against FC Porto, as indicated by the disciplinary map of the FPF Disciplinary Council.

According to referee João Pinheiro's report, the FC Porto assistant coach, who was expelled, "deliberately left the technical area to act in a provocative or inflammatory manner, reacting to the provocation by Club A's coach [José Mourinho], going towards him and confronting him."

The disciplinary map also includes another excerpt from the altercation between Mourinho and Lucho. According to the FPF delegate's report, "at the 92nd minute, after the expulsion by the referee of the sports agents, the home team's head coach José Mourinho, and the visiting Delegate, Luis González, at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the locker rooms, coach José Mourinho addressed Delegate Luis Gonzalez, making a gesture with his index finger tapping his thumb and repeatedly saying 'you're small,' to which the Delegate responded 'you're a traitor.' This situation caused an altercation among several individuals who tried to separate the said sports agents."

The FPF Disciplinary Council considers, in the map, that "the expression 'you're a traitor,' directed directly at the person concerned, constitutes a derogatory judgment about his character, directly affecting his honor and reputation in the sporting and personal context," but that there is a mitigating factor for it being a reaction to a "provocation." "It is an offensive and damaging imputation of honor, constituting a disciplinarily reprehensible conduct relevant for the purposes of Article 136, No. 1 of the RDLPFP. Nonetheless, and as results from the LPFP Delegate's report, the expression was uttered in immediate reaction to the initial provocation ('you're small'), a fact that mitigates the intensity of the misconduct's disvalue. Thus, besides the mitigating factor of good behavior, the application of the provocation/response mitigating factor is justified in determining the specific measure of the sanction."

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